I am doing some work on "Diskless XTerminals" (http://people.delphi.com/sjc/linux) I decided to give it a try with my SUN IPC. To do this I need a custom kernel so I built one with NFSROOT and bootp both on. I did a make vmlinux in the kernel TLD mostly because I have found "make zImage" and "make bzImage" to NOT work on the Sparc :( and when i built my custom kernel (which I am currently using) on the sparc I did a "make vmlinux" to make it... I rdev'd it to use /dev/nfs and placed it in /boot/ then made the proper sym link so that my IPC could find it... I used the exact same name as tftpboot.img used when I installed Debian on my IPC...used the same IP adress et al I type "boot net" on the IPC and it loads the image....I see the hex numbers scroll up then it stops (like it finished loading) then it just sits there am I doing this wrong? I thought if I just built a kernel and placed it there it would load? is tftpboot.img really anything more than a kernel and a initial ram disk? any help is apreciated -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <sjc@delphi.com> --- <sjc@debian.org>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
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